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General William Booth
(1829-1912), founder of the Salvation Army, by George Edward Wade
(1853-1933). Dedicated 1929, on the centenary of General Booth's
birth. Close-up of the top part of the bronze figure seen in profile.
One of a matching pair of monuments to General Booth and his wife
Catherine (1829-1890) in front of the William Booth Memorial Training
College, Champion Park, Denmark Hill, London SE5. Both figures are
shown during prayer meetings in their Salvation Army uniforms. General
Booth, with notes or a hymn sheet in one hand, raises his arm in
preaching, or perhaps conducting worship.

Left: Whole monument. Right: Statue from the rear. The statue stands on a
grey unpolished granite pedestal. Behind it is Sir Giles Gilbert
Scott's training college building, in outline looking rather like the
same architect's Liverpool Cathedral, because of its tall central
tower. Looked at from the rear, the General seems to be preaching to
the large spread of South London laid out below him. The building to
the left of this view is the attractively Italianate Denmark Hill
Station of 1865.

Left: The whole statue in profile.
Right: The raised metal inscription on the front
of the pedestal. General Booth has a distinctive,
strongly-featured profile, complemented by his fine head of thick,
wavy hair and flowing beard. However, he looks wiry and his pose is
energetic, appropriately suggesting the strenuous efforts he made in
his inspirational career.